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The Canaries Continue To Drop Like Flies
The Canaries Continue To Drop Like Flies One would think as “canary” after “canary” falls silent either sickened with laryngitis, or worse – completely comatose. Those on Wall Street as well as the financial media itself would not only have seen, but heard, many of the warning calls that have been obvious for quite some time. […]
TBTF Mega Banks Lowering Downpayments and Credit Standards to Keep High End Housing Market Going
TBTF Mega Banks Lowering Downpayments and Credit Standards to Keep High End Housing Market Going What do you do when even wealthy people begin to face an increasingly hard time purchasing a home in a vertical market completely disconnected from income trends? You reduce downpayments and lower credit standards, of course. Where have we seen this […]
Blame the Fed for the Commodities Slump
Blame the Fed for the Commodities Slump When we left you at the end of last week the world was falling apart. As you know, the economy functions on electronic credit… not cold, hard cash. Without the banks pumping more credit into the system – by way of loans – it sags. The Dow fell […]
The Chilling Thing China’s Electricity Consumption Just Said about the Economy
The Chilling Thing China’s Electricity Consumption Just Said about the Economy China has been building what is by now the largest high-speed rail system in the world. Subway systems are growing faster than anyone can imagine anywhere else. Ridership is soaring. High-rise buildings are sprouting up like mushrooms, to be occupied by businesses and consumers […]
Will the Oil Patch Bust Trigger Recession?
Will the Oil Patch Bust Trigger Recession? This seemingly inexhaustible credit line is now drying up, with severely negative consequences for oil producers with debt that’s coming due. Could the oil patch bust triggered by oil plummeting from $100/barrel to $50/barrel kick the U.S. into recession? Longtime correspondent B.C. recently observed: The question is whether the incipient […]
It’s Happening: Debt Is Tearing up the Fracking Revolution
It’s Happening: Debt Is Tearing up the Fracking Revolution The shares of Chesapeake Energy, second largest natural-gas driller in the US, crashed nearly 10% today, to $9.29, the lowest price since August 2003, down nearly 70% since oil began to plunge a year ago. The company’s $1.1 billion of 5.75% notes fell to an all-time low […]
4 Things That Are Happening Today That Indicate That A Deflationary Financial Collapse Is Imminent
4 Things That Are Happening Today That Indicate That A Deflationary Financial Collapse Is Imminent When financial markets crash, they do not do so in a vacuum. There are always patterns, signs and indicators that tell us that something is about to happen. In this article, I am going to share with you four patterns […]
Italy – Non-Performing Loans Hit a New Record High
Italy – Non-Performing Loans Hit a New Record High While all Eyes are on Greece, Italy’s Banks are Drowning in Bad Debt The real danger to the euro area probably doesn’t emanate from Greece, but from two of its heavyweights, namely France and Italy. A small note in the European press reminds us that all is not […]
The Global Template for Collapse: The Enchanting Charms of Cheap, Easy Credit
The Global Template for Collapse: The Enchanting Charms of Cheap, Easy Credit Cheap, easy credit has created moral hazard and nurtured magical thinking throughout the global economy. According to polls, the majority of Greek citizens want the benefits of membership in the euro/EU and the end of EU-imposed austerity. The idea that these are mutually exclusive […]
ECB, Monetarism and a Greek Half-Decade
ECB, Monetarism and a Greek Half-Decade Greece really should not matter, at all, outside of the tragic plight of the Greeks themselves. You’ll see that message echoed particularly inside the US where the status quo takes a contradictory turn toward reasonableness in order to justify further what isn’t. This is all about asset prices and […]
The Global Credit Market Is Now A Lit Powderkeg
The Global Credit Market Is Now A Lit Powderkeg And markets are totally unprepared The financial markets have had a bit of a tough time going anywhere this year. The S&P 500 has been caught in a 6% trading band all year, capped on the upside by a 3% gain and on the downside by […]
Troika Offers Greece Third Bailout Program, Prepares Emergency Plan If No Deal
Troika Offers Greece Third Bailout Program, Prepares Emergency Plan If No Deal On the heels of Thursday’s failed Eurogroup meeting and heading into what is again being presented as an all or nothing, “Lehman weekend” for Greece and its creditors, reports suggest the troika has offered Greece a third bailout program: GREEK CREDITORS OFFER EU15.5B […]
Weekend Edition: Literally, Your ATM Won’t Work…
Weekend Edition: Literally, Your ATM Won’t Work… Editor’s Note: Today, we’re running an urgent warning from Bill. It’s about theviolent monetary shock he sees coming. This may sound strange… But the catastrophic scenario Bill outlines below is potentially a much bigger threat than even the out-of-control national debt. Please remember this warning when you go to the ATM […]
